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These dark skies : reckoning with identity, violence, and power from abroad / Arianne Zwartjes.
Van Pelt Library PS3626.W37 T44 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zwartjes, Arianne, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zwartjes, Arianne.
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- Violence--Social aspects.
- Violence.
- Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Emigration and immigration.
- National characteristics--Social aspects.
- National characteristics.
- Social integration.
- Social Integration.
- identity.
- Social aspects.
- Medical Subjects:
- Social Integration.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 265 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "These Dark Skies is semi-lyrical, mixing personal narrative with arts commentary and research on constructions of identity, race, power, migration, and violence. The book follows the trajectory of a year of living in the southern Netherlands, watching the refugee crisis unfold across Europe, and feeling deeply the geographic proximity of the disaster. The two primary narrative threads running through the entire book are the experience of living in Europe-mixed with the narrative of Zwartjes' relationship with her wife, who is Russian-and the unfolding of both the refugee crisis and the uptick in terrorist acts in France, Greece, Austria, Germany, the Balkans, etc. As it moves through this story, the writer seeks to probe her own subjectivity, as a white American, as a queer woman in a transcultural marriage, as a writer and a witness"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Choreographies
- ch. Two A Wild Blossoming Red
- ch. Three The Bent of Light
- ch. Four Notes on Bewilderment
- ch. Five Cities of Broken Teeth, Cities of Dust and Blood
- ch. Six The Psychology of Violence
- ch. Seven Blood Sugar
- ch. Eight Strangers in the Village
- ch. Nine A World Without Lines
- ch. Ten Seeking Refuge
- ch. Eleven American Innocence
- ch. Twelve Black Squares and Summer Storms
- ch. Thirteen Radical Hope.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-261).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Zwartjes, Arianne. These dark skies
- ISBN:
- 9781609388416
- 1609388410
- OCLC:
- 1285093142
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